Thursday, May 20, 2021

Pub Crawl - SoDo and Downtown: Rockpit Brewing and Broken Strings Brewery

I tried these two breweries after Disney two weeks ago. The first is on S. Orange Ave near Michigan (Illiana St). Behind Cecil's Texas BBQ. You can take the street after the rr tracks if you enter from I-4. The second is just past the soccer stadium on the left. On Church St.

Rockpit Brewing - Open for two years. Posters of miners on the walls. Not minors! That would be problematic. Small. Fireplace. Woody. New Orleans food truck in front. Good beer. Bar on the left. Means of operation all around. Tiny parking lot. Had a Cackler and a pale ale. $3 for a 4 or 5 oz. 

Broken Strings Brewery - Open (in some form) for five years. Said they "merged" with Black Cauldron. Small room. Means of operation behind a wall behind the bar. Parking lot. Said you can park there for games for $20. Rock n roll caricatures. Games. Vinyl sales area. Good beer. Had a red ale, a NE IPA and a Black IPA. $2.50 for 5 oz pours. I think they close early. Like before dinner time. Can't remember if that was a Covid thing.

*Another brewery called Gaitlin Hall is almost open south on S Orange (by Le Cordon Bleu) and Motorwerks on N Orange (Downtown) in the old Mini Cooper/Orlando Brewing space looks open. After those two, I think the one in Eustis is the last one in the CF area not accounted for.

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